Imagined crossover · Forensics and profilers
What if Lincoln Rhyme met Temperance Brennan?
The science of the dead. Two forensic scientists who believe evidence never lies.
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The pair
Lincoln RhymeQuadriplegic forensic scientist and former NYPD captainBy Jeffery Deaver · Lincoln Rhyme · first in The Bone Collector
Temperance BrennanForensic anthropologist working in Montreal and CharlotteBy Kathy Reichs · Temperance Brennan · first in Déjà Dead
Chemistry8/10
Friction6/10
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Where and when
New York
The 2000s and 2010s
The story
- How they might meet
- Bones found on a construction site in Manhattan are too old for the coroner and too strange for the police, and Rhyme sends for the best forensic anthropologist he knows.
- Why they would work
- Two forensic scientists who believe evidence never lies.
- What each brings
- Rhyme reads trace evidence and crime scenes. Tempe reads bones, decay and time.
- Where they would clash
- Rhyme insists on being right, all the time. Tempe would not let that pass.
Strengths compared
Lincoln Rhyme Temperance Brennan
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On the page together
The years in which each character's books were published.
Read your way in
Start with each character's first appearance.
- The Bone CollectorJeffery Deaver · 1997 · Lincoln Rhyme's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
- Déjà DeadKathy Reichs · 1997 · Temperance Brennan's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
